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Historical Event on 8/22/1877

Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, great painter, philosopher, linguist, critic, art researcher in the East, was born at Colombo in Sri Lanka.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/27/1931150 are arrested following 'red shirt' riots in the N.W. Frontier province.
4/5/1919India's first modern shipping company Scindia Steam Navigation's first ship 'Liberty' started its journey. The weight of the ship was 5,940 tonnes.
1/21/1963Acharaya Shivpujan Sahai, famous Hindi writer, poet and novelist, died. He was editor of Hindi journals like ""Marwari Sudhar"", ""Samanwaya"", ""Adarsh"" etc. He wrote 400 short stories and 67 biographies. His novel ""Dehati Dunia"" is acclaimed as first regional novel in Hindi.
1/1/1900Sathya Sai Baba was born
1/11/1958Two lakh Indians in East Pakistan were rounded up and lodged in concentration camps.
1/1/1978Samrat (Emperor) Ashoka, Air India's first Jumbo-Jet Boeing 747, after explosion falls into Arabian Sea, killing 213 people. Nobody survived.
9/6/1996CBI arrests four Jharkhand Mukti Morcha leaders in bribery case.
7/8/1996Suspended Dy. Municipal Commisioner Khairnar to be removed by Brihan Mumbai Municipal Corporation.
10/13/1991PM Rao leaves for Harare to attend the Commonwealth heads of government meeting.
1/11/1975Oil struck in third Bombay High rig.